CCHA: WMU at Michigan this weekend

Western Michigan is at Michigan on Friday and Saturday in Central Collegiate Hockey Association play this week.

Ferris State plays at Michigan State on Saturday.

Here are notes from around the league:

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ALASKA: The Nanooks will have to wait 32 days until their next game as they wrap up the academic semester this week in Fairbanks and head home. Alaska plays next at Michigan on Jan. 11.

BOWLING GREEN: The Falcons four points (win and tie) at Alaska mark their best weekend series of the season. The last time Bowling Green earned at least four points in a CCHA series was at home against Ohio State on Jan. 7-8, 2012, when the Falcons had back-to-back tie/shootout wins.

FERRIS STATE: Junior forward Garrett Thompson had a goal in each of the losses at Western Michigan and has nine points (4-5-9) in his last six games after totaling only three points (2-1-3) in the initial 10 contests of the season.

LAKE SUPERIOR STATE: The Lakers snapped No. 3 Miami’s eight-game unbeaten streak with a 1-0 shutout victory on Saturday. Junior goaltender Kevin Murdock made 46 saves to record his second shutout of the season.

MIAMI: Saturday’s loss to Lake Superior was Miami’s first at home this season. With Friday’s win, the RedHawks improved to 6-0-3 at Steve Cady Arena, which was their best home start since the 1992-93 season when Miami went undefeated at home with a 17-0-2 record.

MICHIGAN: Senior forward A.J. Treais leads the Wolverines, and ranks tied for fifth in the country, with 10 goals this season. He also paces Michigan with 15 points (10-5-15) in 15 games. Treais is five goals shy of his career-high (15), which he set a season ago.

MICHIGAN STATE: Freshman goaltender Jake Hildebrand made 36 saves in Friday’s 3-2 loss at Notre Dame, the first time he’s allowed more than two goals in his eight starts this season.

NORTHERN MICHIGAN: The Wildcats’ 2-1 non-conference win over U.P.-rival Michigan Tech was their fourth straight win over the Huskies. The two teams meet again later this season in Houghton on Feb. 12.

NOTRE DAME: The Irish have now won five games in a row for the first time since Feb. 11-25, 2011. Notre Dame also has a seven-game CCHA winning streak that started on Nov. 4 vs. Western Michigan. The last time the Irish won seven consecutive CCHA games came from Dec. 5 - Jan. 16, 2008-09.

OHIO STATE: Senior goaltender Brady Hjelle’s 37 saves on Saturday were a season high and matched his career best, first set at Miami last December. Hjelle is third in the NCAA with a 1.46 goals-against average and second nationally with a .950 save percentage.

WESTERN MICHIGAN: The sweep of Ferris State extended the Broncos’ winning streak to five games. Their last regular-season five-game winning streak came in February 2007 and included sweeps of Alaska and Michigan State and a win over Lake Superior.